Where is the best place in the world to be a working woman?

In some countries International Women’s Day on March 8th is a public holiday. But it is too early to relax efforts to increase equality for working women.

The Nordics are still out in front, according to our latest glass-ceiling index, which shows where women have the best chances of equal treatment at work. It combines data on higher education, labour-force participation, pay, child-care costs, maternity rights, business-school applications and representation in senior jobs. Each country’s score is a weighted average of its performance on nine indicators.

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source: economist.com